From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:51:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4FDB13B1.8040100@kernel.dk> References: <1339757457-15646-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1339757457-15646-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Cc: LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini , James Bottomley List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 06/15/2012 12:50 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > Sometimes, warnings about ioctls to partition happen often enough that they > form majority of the warnings in the kernel log and users complain. In some > cases warnings are about ioctls such as SG_IO so it's not good to get rid of > the warnings completely as they can ease debugging of userspace problems > when ioctl is refused. > > Since I have seen warnings from lots of commands, including some proprietary > userspace applications, I don't think disallowing the ioctls for processes > with CAP_SYS_RAWIO will happen in the near future if ever. So lets just > stop warning for processes with CAP_SYS_RAWIO for which ioctl is allowed. Agree, merged, finally. -- Jens Axboe